Curwen Eliot Hodgkin was born at Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames, near Pangbourne, Berkshire on 19 June 1905, the only son of Alice Jane and Charles Ernest Hodgkin.
10 Facts About Eliot Hodgkin
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The scientist Thomas Eliot Hodgkin was his great-grandfather's older brother and the abstract painter Howard Eliot Hodgkin was his cousin.
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Eliot Hodgkin was educated at Harrow School from 1919 to 1923.
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Eliot Hodgkin began with oil painting in the late 1920s and in 1937 he started painting in tempera.
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Eliot Hodgkin had one-man shows at the Leicester Galleries, New English Art Club, Picture Hire Galleries, Royal Society of British Artists, Arthur Jeffress Gallery and Agnew's, Wildenstein, and in New York at Durlacher Bros.
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Eliot Hodgkin's books include She Closed the Door, Fashion Drawing, 55 Views of London and A Pictorial Gospel.
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Eliot Hodgkin began painting in tempera in about 1937, using a medium based on a recipe given to him by Maxwell Armfield, his friend and former teacher.
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On 24 April 1940, Eliot Hodgkin married Maria Clara Henderson, his lifetime partner.
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Eliot Hodgkin died on 30 May 1987 at the age of 81 and his ashes are buried at St John's Notting Hill.
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In 2019, after almost 30 years, Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered was the first major exhibition of the artist's works, and took place in Waddesdon Manor.